Strawberry Perl

Perl is a programming language suitable for writing simple scripts as well as complex applications – see http://www.perl.org

Strawberry Perl is a perl environment for MS Windows containing all you need to run and develop perl applications. It is designed to be as close as possible to perl environment on UNIX systems.It includes perl binaries, compiler (gcc) + related tools, all the external libraries (crypto, math, graphics, xml …), all the bundled database clients and all you expect from Strawberry Perl.

DWIM Perl

DWIM Perl (Do What I Mean, Perl) is a Perl distribution that makes it easy to start using Perl. It contains the standard Perl distribution and a lot of extensions so you won’t need to search for them and install them yourself.

DWIM Perl has a version for Microsoft Windows that contains Padre, the Perl IDE and all the CPAN modules you’ll ever need.

The Linux version was designed to be used primarily on servers. Thus it does not contain the IDE, but it contains all the CPAN modules you’ll need.

DWIM Perl for Windows is a Strawberry Perl derivative for Windows. It contains everything you will need for your Perl development.

It contains:

Strawberry Perl 5.14.2.1 RC which itself is a standard Perl with several extensions already installed.

A large part of Task::Kensho, a list of recommended packages.

Padre, the Perl IDE 0.94.

Module::Version 0.12 so you can use mversion to check which version of each module you have.